Spain joined him this Thursday in New York the United States and 29 other countries in a joint declaration, signed at the United Nations General Assembly this week, which recognizes the triumph of Edmundo González Urrutia in the presidential elections in Venezuela. “In the context of the violent repression against members of the opposition“, an arrest warrant for political reasons issued on September 3 against presidential candidate Edmundo González Urrutia, who, according to publicly available electoral records, received the most votes in the July 28 elections, forced him to leave the country”, we can read. the declaration in very measured diplomatic language in a text which has no binding force. A few hours after this statement and after Spain requested to visit the two detained Spanish tourists, José María Basoa Valdovinos and Andrés Martínez Adasme, Nicolás Maduro attacked Spain again.
In the press release, we can also read that “We congratulate the Venezuelan people for their participation in the presidential elections on July 28. despite the significant challenges. More than 12 million people went to the polls and exercised their right to vote,” the statement said. signed by Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Costa Rica, Croatia, Denmark, Slovenia, Spain, United States, Estonia, Guatemala, Guyana, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Countries -Netherlands, Panama, Peru, Portugal, United Kingdom, Dominican Republic, Sweden and Ukraine.
“Your willexpressed at the polls, must be respected”, is written in the text after Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutiaconsensus candidate of the Venezuelan opposition, won the presidential elections, despite threats from Maduro’s narcodictatorship which took Venezuelan institutions hostage.
“However, nearly two months have passed since the elections and calls for electoral transparency, Venezuelans and the international community, remain unanswered. “International election observers have raised serious concerns about the transparency and integrity of the electoral process, in particular the refusal of the National Electoral Commission to publish detailed and independently verifiable results of the electoral colleges, as is required,” the statement continued. reference without directly mentioning them to the persecutions of Nicolas Maduro, who ordered representatives to go from house to house in the polling stations in search of the minutes to hide his pout.
“We remain deeply concerned by the widespread and continuing repressionas well as for the human rights abuses and violations reported after the elections. These abuses include arbitrary arrests and imprisonment (including of children).deaths, denial of fair trial guarantees and intimidation tactics against the democratic opposition and other members of civil society,” the document states.
Transition in Venezuela
“THE it is time for Venezuelan political leaders to begin constructive and inclusive conversations on a transition with guarantees for both parties in order to break the political impasse in which the country finds itself and to peacefully restore democratic institutions in accordance with Venezuelan legislation, as well as the will of the people expressed through their votes of July 28″, can -we read in the text.
“We call for the immediate release of those arbitrarily detained without respecting the guarantees of a fair trial. It is essential that Venezuelans are allowed to peacefully express their political views, including exercising their freedom of peaceful assembly and expression, without fear of reprisal. We call for an end to the excessive use of force, political violence and harassment against the opposition and civil society,” writes the text. Among them, two Spanish citizens were arrested on September 14. José María Basoa Valdovinos35 years old, and Andrés Martinez Adasme32 years old, whom he accuses of being CNI spies. Since then, the drug dictatorship of Nicolás Maduro has opened a diplomatic crisis in which he accuses Spain and the United States of wanting to assassinate the drug dictator.
In this sense, the narcodictator Nicolás Maduro insisted this Thursday that Chavismo managed to stop a plan that included “foreign hitmen”, as Venezuela’s number 2, Diosdado Cabello, indicated a few days ago.
These words were spoken hours after the publication of the aforementioned statement and Spain’s request that the Spanish consul in Venezuela be allowed to visit the two Spanish tourists detained in the Amazon, accused of being spies. “They weren’t counting on our intelligence ability to capture to a good part of the foreign mercenary elements who had entered the country”, declared the narcodictator with his usual populist speech.
